FINAL

Question 1

What elements were synthesized to make up the Byzantine Empire?

Answer 1

Changed administrative structures and cultural orientation. Military and administrative reform, revised laws, and refocused its culture- particularly it’s religious practices.

Question 2

What great Christian church did Justinian build in Constantinople in the 6th c. AD?

Answer 2

The church of Hagia Sophia

Question 3

What is Monophysitism?

Answer 3

One-nature-ism
5th century
emerged as a result of bitter quarrels between Christian thinkers and Alexandria and antioch

Question 4

What is Iconoclasm?

Answer 4

“Image breaking.”

Rejection or destruction of religious pictures called “icons”

Question 5

Who was the Russian ruler who helped convert his people to Christianity?

Answer 5

-Vladimir The Great

Question 6

What is the name for the Islamic theological imperative to conquer territory and place it under the rule of Muslim law?

Answer 6

Muhammad

Question 7

What are the usual names for the three periods of the Middle Ages?

Answer 7

Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages

Question 8

What do we mean by the phrase “Carolingian renaissance”?

Answer 8

Rebirt; Charlemagne’s reforms culminated in a revival of learning; it was a major revival of learning, combined with reform of religious and political institutions, that occurred under Charlemagne and his successors

Question 9

Where was Charlemagne’s capital?

Answer 9

Aachen
a palace
group of buildings with residential, political, and religious purposes, chosen by Charlemagne to be the center of power of the Carolingians empire
located at the north of the current city of Aachen, today in the German land of North Rhiane-Westphalia.

Question 10

Name Charlemagne’s most important scholar.

Answer 10

Alcuin of York

Question 11

Name some of Charlemagne’s principal enemies.

Answer 11

Charles Martel- Mayor of the Frank

Question 12

What did Charlemagne depend on to administer his empire?

Answer 12

Divided the kingdom into reigns managed by counts. He made his officials swear oaths of fealty. He has missi domini, or the lords messengers, travel the kingdom and report back to him about the counts governing, compliments from the people, and the success of various laws.

Question 13

Who were the Vikings, and what did they do? Did they found any European states?

Answer 13

Mainly Danes and Norwegians, they seeks booty, glory, and political opportunity. Began settling in Ireland , England, North Western France (“Normany-the region of the North Men”), and Rus (early russia)

Question 14

Who is the the founder of the Holy Roman Empire? Crowned emperor in 962.

Answer 14

Otto I

Question 15

What French word does our word “chivalry” come from?

Answer 15

Chevalerie

Question 16

When was the First Crusade declared?

Answer 16

1095 AD

Question 17

Which crusade did Richard the Lion-Hearted participate in?

Answer 17

The 3rd Crusade

Question 18

Was the Spanish Reconquista successful in recovering Spain from the Muslims? What year did the Reconquista end?

Answer 18

Yes it was successful. Captured the Muslim strong hold and old Visigothic, captial of Toledo, important moral and strategic victory in 1085 AD

Question 19

What was William the Conquerors “Domesday Book” created for?

Answer 19

Massive survey of England in 1086 AD. Survey to learn as much as he good about the new kingdom and about fiefs he had assigned to his followers

Question 20

Why was the Archbishop Thomas Becket murdered in 1170?

Answer 20

In June 1170 AD Roger De Pont levque, the Archbishop of York along with Gilbert Foliot, the Bishop of London and Josceline de beohon, the bishop Salisbury, crowned Henry the young king of York. This was a breach of Canterbury privilege of coronation, and in November 1170, Becket excommunicated all three. While the three men fled to the king of Normandy, Becket continued to excommunicate his opponents in the church, the news of which also reached Henry. When Henry heard this news about Becket he is said to have uttered words that were interpreted by his men as wishing Becket dead. Whatever was said was interpreted as royal command and four knights set out to confront the archbishop of Canterbury, Becket

Question 21

What is the significance of the Magna Carta?

Answer 21

Document required the king to respect the rights of feudal lords, not abuse his judicial powers, and consult his natural advisors- that is the barons.

Question 22

When were universities created and why?

Answer 22

Early decades of the 12th century- unofficial.

University of Paris- later decades of the 12th century.

Question 23

What did St. Thomas Aquinas think about natural and revealed truth?

Answer 23

The kinds of things that any person can know through the operation of reason.
natural truths-that anyone can know ex: that God exists
Revealed truths-that can be none only through faith in God’s revelation ex; the trinity.

Question 24

Did medieval scholastics believe in a rational, loving God who had created a world that was both intelligible and good?

Answer 24

Yes

Question 25

Who wrote the Summa theologica?

Answer 25

Thomas Aquinas; is a encyclopedic compendium of carefully arrayed knowledge on a particular subject

Question 26

What does the Christian doctrine of the Trinity explain about the nature of God?

Answer 26

God is 1 person and 3 beings

Question 27

What did Arius, and the Arian heresy, teach about Jesus Christ? How does that compare to what orthodox, Catholic Christianity taguht?

Answer 27

Jesus was the highest order of created being. Jesus is God and man.

Question 28

What was the principle unit of the Roman army?

Answer 28

Legions composed of manipales

Question 29

When was Charlemagne crowned emperor in Rome?

Answer 29

AD 800

Question 30

Who, according to Roman tradition, rescued Romulus and Remus from death by exposure?

Answer 30

A she wolf rescues them, and then a Sheppard finds them

Question 31

Name the various people who attacked Western Europe in the 9th and 10 centuries AD.

Answer 31

Vikings and Muslims

Question 32

The Middle Ages is the product of a fusion of what three strands of civilization?

Answer 32

Judaea-Christianity, Greco roman civilization culture, and the Germanic society

Question 33

On what was the economy of the Roman Republic was base primarily?

Answer 33

Borrowed a lot from Greece

Question 34

The abbreviation “AD” stands for?

Answer 34

Anno Domini; in the time of Christ

Question 35

To what does the term “Renaissance humanism” refer?

Answer 35

Collection of intellectual Greek and Roman teachings undertaken by scholars writers and civic leaders who are today known as renaissance humanists

Question 36

Who is Theodoric?

Answer 36

Ostrogoths King